World Building Template

World Building Template, within the Milanote app

Build a believable world for your story

This world-building template offers a great way to map out a fictional world. Define your landscape, geology, urban, and natural features.

Think about the geographical and environmental features of the map, and what kind of civilizations might occupy these areas. Once you've imagined your territories, you can begin to develop stories around the characters that live there.

This template is part of our guide on How to plan a novel.

  • Explore ideas
  • Organize visually
  • Share with your team
  • Gather feedback
  • Export to PDF
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Collect everything in one place

Milanote is the visual way to collect everything that powers your creative work. Simple text editing & task management helps you organize your thoughts and plans. Upload images, video, files and more.

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Organize visually

Milanote's flexible drag and drop interface lets you arrange things in whatever way makes sense to you. Break out of linear documents and see your research, ideas and plans side-by-side.

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Collaborate with your team

Milanote boards can be a private place to think, or a shared workspace for collaboration—you're in total control of who sees what. Instantly see your team's changes, leave comments, and never miss a thing with smart notifications and alerts.

Organize your ideas & planning in one place.

Novel Plan template Template
Novel Plan template Template, within the Milanote app

Bring your characters to life.

Character Profile Template Template
Character Profile Template  Template, within the Milanote app

Plan your story outline, plot & scenes

Story Outline Template
Story Outline Template, within the Milanote app

Collect & organize your research.

Research Template
Research Template, within the Milanote app

Turn an initial idea into something amazing.

Brainstorming Template
Brainstorming Template, within the Milanote app

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Construct the imaginary world for your story.